Computer says no! Pellegrini won't win the title in his first season at City

At least not according to Football Manager 2013, who ran the simulation exclusively for MirrorFootball

Manuel Pellegrini will fail to lift the Premier League trophy if he is appointed Manchester City manager - but would bring the FA Cup back to the Etihad - according to a simulation run by Sports Interactive using Football Manager 2013™.

Pellegrini’s City agonizingly missed out on the league title by just a single point as David Moyes’ Manchester United
retained the domestic crown. The Chilean manager failed to beat United in any of the times they met in the season; drawing twice in the league and losing in the League Cup semi-finals.

He did fare much better than his predecessor in the FA Cup and in Europe. Pellegrini played a much greater percentage of first teamers in the cup than Mancini and serenely progressed to the final where they convincingly beat Liverpool 3-0 with goals from Aguero, Yaya Toure and Hamsik.

In the Champions League, City not only topped their group but made it through to the quarter-finals where City threw away a 2-0 lead at home to Real Madrid before the Spanish side closed out a 4-3 aggregate win at the Bernabeu.

Pellegrini also changed City’s tactical focus as they adopted his 4-4-2 with an emphasis on short passing and attacking momentum down the wings. This gave City more service into the box which meant that Pellegrini was able to get the best from Tevez and Aguero as they scored 42 goals between them with Edin Dzeko adding 11 from the bench.

Other notable performers were: Joe Hart, who played in every single game and kept 15 clean sheets, Vincent Kompany who earned 4 Man of the Match awards and David Silva who thrived on the greater freedom that Pellegrini’s 4-4-2 gave him.